Vijay Awards

The popular TV Channel Star Vijay produces and telecasts Vijay Awards ceremony every year since 2006 and these awards are chosen by a panel of juries which consists of distinguished personalities in film industry, film critics and other important people.

The Vijay Award ceremony is organized in collaboration with marketing companies who join the occasion for promotion of their products, the last seven events have been sponsored by Reliance Mobile, Univercell and Close Up.

Apart from Jury based selection of awardees, Vijay Awards has a special edition called Favorite Awards which are decided by public opinion polls, which recognizes popular actors and other functionaries in Film entertainment.

History

The first edition of Vijay Awards was celebrated in the year 2006, recognizing noted film personalities, not focused on any particular year but on the basis of their fame and popularities. The awardees included all the time good performers and the TV viewers were asked to choose the best of them in nine categories in film making, such as Hero, Heroine, Director, Villain and Comedian, Music director, Playback Singer and the film, while along with this 10 Jury based  Special Awards were also given.

The award giving format was exhaustively reworked in the following year onwards and the next event that was organized in 2008, the film performances of the preceding year alone were taken up for the Awards, with most of the choices were made by a committee, while selections for five categories such as Favorite Hero, Favorite Heroine, Favorite Film, Favorite Director and Favorite Song to be chosen by viewers’ votes. The award covering Favorite Song was newly brought in from 2008.

Vijay Awards have become very prestigious and popular event of TV telecast, even outshining the popularity of Filmfare Award South, gaining phenomenal advantage in TRP ratings for Vijay TV through this telecast.

Awards

Jury edition of Vijay Awards cover the Best Film, the Best Actor, the Best Actress, the Best Director etc like many other Award giving organizations, they also include unique awards to the best crew making the film, Contribution to Tamil Cinema, Vijay Award for Entertainer of the Year etc. There are also special awards sponsored by film personalities such as Chevalier Sivaji Ganesan Award for Excellence in Indian Cinema.

Vijay Favorite Award is another edition which is chosen by popularity poll only in respect of Actor, Actress, Director, Song, apart from the Film itself.

Some of the awards have been removed from the list in recent times, covering few of the favorite sections.

Ceremony

The Vijay Award ceremony is conducted in the most prestigious venue of Chennai, viz., Jawaharlal Nehru Indoor Stadium, which are shot and telecast later after proper editing for an entertaining telecast episode.

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